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The IFC's lessons of experience & the Chad-Cameroon oil and pipeline project (Bretton Woods Project)

To Lend or Not To Lend:

This Article will use the Chad/Cameroon project to illustrate why the World Bank should adopt a realistic and pro-active approach to human rights problems. Part II will examine the evolving interpretation of the Bank’s mandate and the historical inconsistencies in its policy toward human rights issues. This examination will show that there are no theoretical obstacles preventing the Bank from interpreting its mandate liberally to include human rights considerations. Part III will draw on the development of the Chad/Cameroon pipeline controversy in order to highlight the importance of human rights considerations for the project’s success. Part IV will argue in favor of the adoption of a more open and consistent human rights policy as an essential condition to improving the credibility of the Bank’s operations. This reformulation is essential if the Bank aims to serve as the guardian of fairness in private investment and to improve the economic well-being of countries like Chad.

Tags: chad, cameroon, petroleum, human, rights, harvard, international, development, world, bank, industry on 2008-07-15 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Policy support instrument: Helping hand or more thumb screws? (Bretton Woods Project)

In October, the IMF board approved the establishment of a Policy Support Instrument (PSI), a non-lending programme which will provide policy advice to poor countries and send a signal to donors and markets about the quality of a country's economic policies. Critics suspect the instrument is little more than a new way "to extend Fund domination".

Tags: psi, imf, international, finance, development on 2008-07-15 -All Annotations (0) -About

in list: IMF policy approaches

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Facilitating whose power? WB and IMF policy influence in Nigeria's energy sector (Bretton Woods Project)

Though the volume of donor financing to Nigeria is much less than to other sub-Saharan African countries, at a policy level the World Bank, the IMF and DFID are highly influential in the country's macro-economy.

Tags: international, development, world, bank, nigeria, africa, petroleum, industry, electricity, obasanjo, PSI, paris, club, privatization, nedp on 2008-07-15 -All Annotations (0) -About

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EITI – Extracting transparency

Despite good intentions, no country has been formally validated as EITI-compliant. The risk now is that the initiative will allow countries to ride free, using the EITI label to continue business as usual. As a result, Publish What You Pay has called on companies and governments to deliver concrete results. The good news is that the EITI board is beginning to flex its muscles. If countries do not become validated within two years they risk losing their status. So far Chad, Trinidad and Tobago, and Bolivia have been disqualified.

Tags: chad, cameroon, petroleum, industry, eiti, world, business, council, sustainable, development, multinational, corporations, international on 2008-07-13 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Africa's Unnatural Disaster

The strategies of the World Bank and IMF have successfully applied shock doctrine methods to plunder the globe, causing widespread hardship and suffering, for the benefit of the few and creating millions of victims. They are the embodiment of psychopathy on a global scale, and from that perspective, they are not 'failed', but actually a devastating and horrific success.

Tags: agriculture, economics, africa, world, bank, imf, international, development on 2008-07-06 and saved by2 people -All Annotations (7) -About

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Institutionalization of Political Power in Africa

Citing a series of recent cases in which African rulers are forced to accept something other than their preferred outcomes, the authors say that across sub-Saharan Africa, formal institutional rules are coming to matter much more than they used to and displace violence as the primary source of constraints on executive behaviour.

Tags: institutions, politics, africa, political, development, governance, government, eldis on 2008-07-06 -All Annotations (0) -About

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